This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and ...

He’s around 150 years old and has been living at the zoo for 60 years. Since Al likes warmer weather, he tends to spend ...

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Aldabra, a pristine wilderness, is home to over 100,000 tortoises. It is also a windswept, unwelcoming crumb of land, floating in open ocean far from anywhere and covered with razor-sharp limestone ...

The Seychelles archipelago of 115 islands stretches across a vast area of the western Indian Ocean. Each island is fringed by ...

The remoteness of this island preserves it from human influence and helps it retain its natural beauty. Aldabra is one of the largest coral atolls in the world, and it has become a research hub for ...

Today, other flightless members of this family, like the Aldabra rail shown here, still live on oceanic islands where they evolved in the absence of predators and had no need to fly. The Haitian ...

Scientists from the Indian Ocean nation of the Seychelles are working to explain how vital seabirds are to the health of ...

Although St. Regis Longboat Key may not be open yet, people can make their reservations now. "This is not just another hotel ...

During the winter months, the zoo said cold-blooded animals, such as tortoises like Big Al, are moved to the greenhouse to ...

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